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10 Greatest Wisdom Quotes

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.” – Abraham Maslow

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.” – Christopher Hampton

“Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.” – Samuel Smiles

“My father used to say, you would worry less about what people think if you knew how little they did.” – Dr. Phil McGraw

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington

“Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak … sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.” – Anonymous

“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.” – John Ruskin

Funny Anonymous Quotes

The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it’s still on the list.

The word ‘studying’ was made up of two words originally – ‘students dying’.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

24 hours in a day 24 beers in a case coincidence? I think not.

If I agreed with you we’d both be wrong.

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

A little boy asked his father, “Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?” Father replied, “I don’t know son, I’m still paying.”

Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband.

Sad Quotes about Life

Let me share with you some wonderful Sad Quotes about Life for more inspiration.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. – Henry David Thoreau

The world is perfect. It’s a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives. – Joseph Campbell

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight. – Rabindranath Tagore

Sad Quotes about LifeAny fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. – Benjamin Franklin

The word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Gustav Jung

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. – Publilius Syrus

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history. – Carl Jung

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. – William Shakespeare

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. – Leo Buscaglia

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, “It might have been”. – John Greenleaf Whittier

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

Motivational Career Change Quotes

Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. – Marian Wright Edelman

The best work never was and never will be done for money. – John Ruskin

My father always told me, ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. – Jim Fox

For many people a job is more than an income – it’s an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life. – Paul Clitheroe

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. – Kahlil Gibran

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. – Orison Swett Marden

A sobering thought: What if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? – Jane Wagner

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. – James Matthew Barrie

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. – Napoleon Hill

It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. – Annie Gottlier

Choose your love, love your choice. – Thomas S. Monson

What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it. – Lee Iacocca

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all – Mahatma Ghandi

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns

I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. – Robert H. Schuller